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Associated Clients
Cisco Small Business WAP551 and WAP561 Wireless-N Access Point 17
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The associated stations are shown along with information about packet traffic
transmitted and received for each station.
• Total Number of Associated Clients—The total number of clients currently
associated with the WAP device.
• Network Interface—The VAP the client is associated with. On WAP561
devices, WLAN0 and WLAN1 precede the VAP interface name to indicate
the radio interface (WLAN0 represents radio 1 and WLAN1 represents
radio 2).
• Station—The MAC address of the associated wireless client.
• Status—The Authenticated and Associated Status shows the underlying
IEEE 802.11 authentication and association status, which is present no
matter which type of security the client uses to connect to the WAP device.
This status does not show IEEE 802.1X authentication or association status.
These are some points to keep in mind with regard to this field:
- If the WAP device security mode is None or Static WEP, the
authentication and association status of clients appears as expected;
that is, if a client shows as authenticated to the WAP device, it is able to
transmit and receive data. (The reason why is that Static WEP uses only
IEEE 802.11 authentication.)
- If the WAP device uses IEEE 802.1X or WPA security, it is possible for a
client association to appear as authenticated (through IEEE 802.11
security) although it is not actually authenticated through the second
layer of security.
• From Station/To Station—For the From Station, the counters indicate the
packets or bytes received by the wireless client. For the To Station, the
counters indicate the number of packets and bytes transmitted from the
WAP device to the wireless client.
- Packets—Number of packets received (transmitted) from the wireless
client.
- Bytes—Number of bytes received (transmitted) from the wireless client.
- Drop Packets—Number of packets dropped after being received
(transmitted).
- Drop Bytes—Number of bytes that dropped after being received
(transmitted).